Sarah and I attended the eLit conference at Loughborough University on 28th-30th June. Overall it was an interesting conference, although delegate numbers were noticeably down on previous years. It did however mean the conference was small and friendly and great for networking. And there were some new faces from many of the new universities. Once again librarians dominated, and there were very few IT, academic or e-learning staff attending. There was quite a buzz about new social networking technologies, but also a feeling that collaboration and engaging academics and other learning support staff was crucial. Sadly Allan Martin the founder of eLit couldn’t attend this year’s conference and his enthusiasm and usual opening keynote addressed was missed. An overriding problem throughout the conference somewhat ironically was technical problems, with a projector bulb blowing in the first keynote, through to lost presentations and problems with laptops. We had excellent keynotes, notably from Hilda Kruger and Mark Stiles.

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